At the end of the Reagan Administration, two generations of National Review

honchos (including our host, the Editor-in-Chief) stick their necks out about the future,

giving us some good fun but also food for thought. WA: "The oldest baby-boomer is

now 42 years old.... The bulk of the population are settling in to establishment of their

families, to the purchase of homes ... One might be fairly liberal in one's attitude, or

tolerant of other people's weirdnesses, but you get less so when it's the protection of your

family and neighborhood." ... JO: "I think conservatives are going to talk a lot about

the idea of empowerment, a word that's sometimes been used by people like Jesse

Jackson on the Left, but which has much more meaning, I think, when conservatives use

it." ... WAR "The Soviet Union, I am absolutely convinced, is going through a period of recognition at long last, forced on it--there's nothing voluntary about it--forced on it

by facts, that it simply isn't making it as a 20th-century, let alone a 21st-century society,

and that it is going to have to change radically. That's fine with me and I encourage

them, and I'm sure it's fine with Reagan and he's encouraging them."